"At some hot, boring afternoon I got an idea. With the help of publicly accessible e-mail adresses I asked 10 questions to a bunch of programmers that I consider very interesting people and I respect them for variuos things they created."

I liked David Heinemeier Hansson's reply (to a similar question): "The ability to restate hard problems as easy ones."

As C.A.R. Hoare once said: "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."